Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 18:48:18 +0200 From: Alessandro Dellavedova <alessandro.dellavedova@ifom-ieo-campus.it> To: alexus <alexus@gmail.com> Cc: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Subject: Re: BGP Message-ID: <D6666C6A-8687-4E60-AEB7-96C3D94D8480@ifom-ieo-campus.it> In-Reply-To: <4A0B4FD3.6040205@ibctech.ca> References: <6ae50c2d0905131327n43876f38ta6541b89261cbd9e@mail.gmail.com> <17838240D9A5544AAA5FF95F8D5203160605D159@ad-exh01.adhost.lan> <4A0B4FD3.6040205@ibctech.ca>
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On May 14, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: >>> is there a way to have FreeBSD work as BGP router and/or at least >>> failover between 2 different ISPs? >>> >> I, as some random guy on the Internet, would recommend Quagga and, >> yes, it will work with 2+ ISP's on single device (server). It's >> well established and in use for transit-facing Internet connections. > > I, also as some random guy on the Internet, concur with Mike. > > I've got numerous FreeBSD/Quagga boxes that have dozens of BGP > sessions, > peering and transit. > > The primary reason I chose Quagga was it's similarity with Cisco in > regards to the CLI (and it works with RANCID). > > If you want true failover between two ISPs, you want BGP. > > Steve Hi, maybe you can also take a look at OpenBGPD. Here you can find a very informative and effective presentation from one of the authors: http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/21c3/ You can find it in the ports under: /usr/ports/net/openbgpd/ Alessandro
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